Apologies it's taken me a while to review this, but I've found a couple things:<br><br>It seems that, though the 27 March 2011 transition to +3:00 (FET) is removed from Europe/Kiev by the proposed patch, it is not removed from Ukraine's three other zones, represented by Europe/Uzhgorod, Europe/Zaporozhye, and Europe/Simferopol (which immediately follow). These should also be removed to match Europe/Kiev and effectively revert Ukraine's originally proposed change in whole.<br>
<br>Also, in addition to the typographical error pointed out by Alan Barrett, there's another one right below it in my comment about the pre-1880 LMT offset of Europe/Tiraspol. Somehow, an extra "a" got put in Tiraspol.<br>
<br>Thanks.<br><br clear="all">--<br>Tim Parenti<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 05:45, Alan Barrett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apb@cequrux.com">apb@cequrux.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Robert Elz wrote:<br>
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Here are proposed changes to the time zone package. The change<br>
to Bahia Brazil has already occurred, and the others are due to<br>
occur within 10 days (the weekend after next) so updates have become<br>
urgent (yet again)...<br>
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[...]<div class="im"><br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Please test these changes (particularly those of you using 64 bit time_t<br>
systems).<br>
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I have tested these changes on a NetBSD system with 64-bit time_t. I<br>
find the following differences in the output from "zdump -v ${ZONENAME}".<br>
<br>
America/Bahia gains two DST transitions per year, from now until further<br>
notice:<br>
<br>
America/Bahia Sun Feb 16 02:00:00 2003 UTC = Sat Feb 15 23:00:00 2003 BRT isdst=0<br>
+America/Bahia Sun Oct 16 02:59:59 2011 UTC = Sat Oct 15 23:59:59 2011 BRT isdst=0<br>
+America/Bahia Sun Oct 16 03:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Oct 16 01:00:00 2011 BRST isdst=1<br>
+America/Bahia Sun Feb 26 01:59:59 2012 UTC = Sat Feb 25 23:59:59 2012 BRST isdst=1<br>
+America/Bahia Sun Feb 26 02:00:00 2012 UTC = Sat Feb 25 23:00:00 2012 BRT isdst=0<br>
[...]<br>
<br>
The Europe/Kiev clock change that already occurred on 27 March<br>
2011 is retroactively re-labeled as a transition into DST, instead<br>
of a change in the UTC offset used for standard time. The<br>
displayed local time on 27 March 2011 remains the same, but the<br>
zone name and isdst flag were "FET isdst=0" in tzdata2011l, and<br>
change to "EEST isdst=1" in the new data:<br>
<br>
Europe/Kiev Sun Mar 27 00:59:59 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 27 02:59:59 2011 EET isdst=0<br>
-Europe/Kiev Sun Mar 27 01:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 27 04:00:00 2011 FET isdst=0<br>
+Europe/Kiev Sun Mar 27 01:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 27 04:00:00 2011 EEST isdst=1<br>
<br>
Europe/Kiev gets two DST transitions per year from now until further<br>
notice:<br>
<br>
+Europe/Kiev Sun Oct 30 00:59:59 2011 UTC = Sun Oct 30 03:59:59 2011 EEST isdst=1<br>
+Europe/Kiev Sun Oct 30 01:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Oct 30 03:00:00 2011 EET isdst=0<br>
+Europe/Kiev Sun Mar 25 00:59:59 2012 UTC = Sun Mar 25 02:59:59 2012 EET isdst=0<br>
+Europe/Kiev Sun Mar 25 01:00:00 2012 UTC = Sun Mar 25 04:00:00 2012 EEST isdst=1<br>
[...]<br>
<br>
In tzdata2011l, Europe/Tiraspol was a link to Europe/Chisinau. In the<br>
new data, Europe/Tiraspol is a separate zone. This change affects times<br>
up to and including 31 December 1879, because the longitute used for LMT<br>
has changed from that of Chisinau to that of Tiraspol:<br>
<br>
-Europe/Tiraspol Wed Dec 31 22:04:39 1879 UTC = Wed Dec 31 23:59:59 1879 LMT isdst=0<br>
-Europe/Tiraspol Wed Dec 31 22:04:40 1879 UTC = Wed Dec 31 23:59:40 1879 CMT isdst=0<br>
+Europe/Tiraspol Wed Dec 31 22:01:27 1879 UTC = Wed Dec 31 23:59:59 1879 LMT isdst=0<br>
+Europe/Tiraspol Wed Dec 31 22:01:28 1879 UTC = Wed Dec 31 23:56:28 1879 CMT isdst=0<br>
<br>
The Europe/Tiraspol clock change that already occurred on 27 March<br>
2011 is retroactively re-labeled as a change in the UTC offset for<br>
standard time, instead of a transition into DST. The displayed<br>
local time on 27 March 2011 remains the same, but the zone name<br>
and isdst flag were "EEST isdst=1" in tzdata2011l, and change to<br>
"FET isdst=0" in the new data. Also, all future DST transitions<br>
for Europe/Tiraspol are removed in the new data:<br>
<br>
Europe/Tiraspol Sun Mar 27 00:59:59 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 27 02:59:59 2011 EET isdst=0<br>
-Europe/Tiraspol Sun Mar 27 01:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 27 04:00:00 2011 EEST isdst=1<br>
+Europe/Tiraspol Sun Mar 27 01:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 27 04:00:00 2011 FET isdst=0<br>
-Europe/Tiraspol Sun Oct 30 00:59:59 2011 UTC = Sun Oct 30 03:59:59 2011 EEST isdst=1<br>
-Europe/Tiraspol Sun Oct 30 01:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Oct 30 03:00:00 2011 EET isdst=0<br>
-Europe/Tiraspol Sun Mar 25 00:59:59 2012 UTC = Sun Mar 25 02:59:59 2012 EET isdst=0<br>
[...]<br>
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I also noticed a mistake in a comment in the "europe" input file:<div class="im"><br>
<br>
+# The substance of this change (reinstatement of the Tiraspol entry)<br>
+# is from a patch from Petr Machata (2011-11-17)<br>
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That date should be 2011-10-17.<br>
<br>
<br>
--apb (Alan Barrett)<br>
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